OBIT: James Clarence FRITZ, 1985, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  FRITZ
  
  James Clarence Fritz, 75, of Bowie, Md., died Nov. 12, 1985, of heart
  failure at Lawrence, Kan.  Born May 15, 1910, in Brothersvalley Township,
  the son of Robert L. and Emma (Cober) Fritz.  He was a graduate of Berlin
  High School, class of 1925, and Penn State University, class of 1929.  He
  did graduate work at the University of New Hampshire and the University of
  Maryland.  He received his degree in biochemistry, specializing in vitamin
  research, poultry nutrition and human nutrition.  He married Jeanette Moore
  Blair of Peterborough, N.H., on July 30, 1933.  He worked for the
  Agriculture Experiment Farm at Beltsville, Md., until moving to Elgin,
  Ill., in 1937, where he accepted directorship of the Borden Experimental
  Laboratory.  In 1965 he accepted a position with the Food and Drug
  Administration at Washington, D.C., and since that time had lived at Bowie,
  Md.  He was a member of the Church of the Brethren in Elgin, Ill.  Preceded
  in death by his wife in 1979, he is survived by a daughter, Margaret Fritz
  Baker, of Lawrence, Kan.; a son, Richard Blair Fritz of Boulder, Colo.; 
  and four grandchildren:  Peter Fritz Baker, Elizabeth Blair Baker, Amy
  Kathryn Fritz and James Robert Fritz.  Also surviving is one brother, H.
  Henry Fritz of Berlin.  A memorial service will be held in the Berlin
  Brethren Church on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Ralph Mills
  and the Rev. William Hay officiating.  A scholarship award fund will be
  established at the Berlin High School.  In lieu of flowers, the family
  requests contributions to this fund in his memory.  Contributions may be
  mailed to Mrs. Margaret Baker, Rt. 2, Baldwin City, Kan.  66006.
  
  Daily American, November 19,  1985
  
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